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1) It really depends on what votes you receive and from whom. For example:
The rating of an item is R = Vt / Wt
If everyone has a weight of 1 then (Wt = N), and (R = Vt / N). Having differing weights, though, means that when a gold member (weight = 4) and bronze member (weight = 1) vote, the vote is weighted towards the gold:
Assume Gold votes 5 and Bronze votes 1:
Wt = 4 + 1 = 5
Vt = 4 x 5 + 1 x 1 = 21
R = 4.2
2) I am not sure where you are seeing a downvote logged. I can see the votes on your article, there are no votes below 4. Any vote above 4 is not a downvote. Going through your recent reputation there is no downvote event. You've only published one article with us and it has never been downvoted.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Please look at the article's score chart under the "stars" in the article's page. It indicates that there was just one vote of 4.
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My chart shows two votes of 4. In addition, looking at the votes more closely (which you cannot see, unfortunately) there are definitely two votes of 4.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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There are two 4 votes. I hovered over the 4 and it clearly shows 2 votes at that level.
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But what weight, the members that voted as "4" have? I just would like to calculate the score by myself.
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That depends on their reputation. You aren't being cheated of votes, so don't worry about it. Ultimately, the reputation score means nothing.
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Which one "reputation points" do you exactly mean the member points or article score?
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And one more question: how to calculate the overall reputation since the article was posted? I'm doing it just for the interest.
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Unfortunately because you cannot see which individual members voted and their reputations, you can't calculate the ratings yourself.
We've sometimes talked about making voting visible, but our concern is that might lead to "revenge downvoting."
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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I've got it. Thanks a lot.
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If you wish I can provide screenshots of the voting logs. Please check if the problem really exists: Screenshot1
Screenshot2
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Hi CodeProject people,
May I ask which is the rule for selecting whether an article should be included in the article competition for a given month?
I had posted an article called Statistics Workbench[^] in the C# section, which I thought had received enough positive feedback (in terms of votings, bookmarks and download counts) to have been at least selected between the top 10 for the month of May. This is not a rant or a complaint, but I would like to know better what is the criteria that allows an article to be selected or not.
Can please someone shed some light on how articles are selected for the competition? Thanks!
Best regards,
Cesar
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The secret is just choosing the right tags, and beating everyone else's rating who also has a tag for that month.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Thanks for the answer, Sean!
So it means that only the rating is taken into account? If that is the case, then I suppose someone could post an article at the last minute of the month and vote himself a five. Then it would have higher chances to be in the top 10 for that month than an article posted in the first day of the month, which got much more visibility, but as well more chance to have received votes of 4 just because it was exposed for more time.
For example, how would an article that received 10 votes of 5 (thus averaging 5.00) be compared against another that received 1000 votes of 5 and 1 vote of 4 (thus averaging somewhere around 4.99)? Would the first be ranked better than the second, or is there some correction applied to this situation?
Best regards,
Cesar
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Chris touched the rating algorithm recently I thought, but that might have been only for very specific scenarios. Here is the calculation:
Code Project Rating and Reputation FAQ[^]
You must consider the popularity of the competition as well. There's a lot of C# related articles on CodeProject. I'm going to unofficially call it "The Big Leagues." You find a lot of top authors there and a lot of the best articles, perhaps because that's where most articles and authors go. Web Dev is also a fierce competition.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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How could I miss that 
Thanks for the answers Sean, and thanks for pointing out that my article was in the Database section, Pete! I hadn't even thought about looking there, but I guess it makes lots of sense since it was mostly about interpreting and extracting information from tabular data.
Thanks!
Best regards,
Cesar
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Hi,
I have submitted my blog, How can I make my technical blogs are consumed? I have checked http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/BlogFeed.aspx[^]. There it is mentioned I need to place Code Project tag in category section. I am using Wordpress 4.4.2 as my CMS. Please help me. Thanks in advance.
==================!!!====================!!!========================
So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.
Kindest Regards
Sibeesh
http://sibeeshpassion.com/
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How is it possible to update the "download source" in an article / tip?
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I have an article relating to Sitecore that is on a web site that is about to be removed. The article was written 2 years ago and is a little dated. However, the site it is on gets about 2000 hits a month and the article seems to still to be useful.
Whilst I do not have the time to update this article for 2015, it would be a simple task to publish to Code Project 'as is' with a short introduction explaining that it is two years old. Would it be acceptable for an old article being re-published in this way?
J
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John Newcombe wrote: the article seems to still to be useful
Then why don't you just add a section for the upgrade? Like: "Welcome to the present" or something like that where you post the new content, but leave the old there as well.
Sometimes an old long well explained article is better and teaches more than a new more efficient but short content.
Just my 5 cent
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I would like to add a message that stays at the top of the article comments.
Is this possible?
Thanks
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Hmm. I think so. Which message would you like to be sticky?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Apparently it has to be a new post. Would you be willing to repost that, so I can make the new post sticky?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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